Modern Warfare 3's Campaign Made Me Die of Cringe

[@TheActMan]

I'd rather staple my nutsack to a fighter jet and watch it take off then ever play this again. Stay tuned for the full MW3 review in a week or so and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

[@The_Jackpurgis]

Happy Thanksgiving ActingMale 🦃🦃

[@aidenguzman3510]

I am thankful for your content

[@legomanas4702]

the act man as always, making the great sacrifices for the wellbeing of his soul

[@db_524]

Can’t wait to see the review, happy Thanksgiving, Act Man. Yep, this campaign is so horrible.

[@eeqol2268]

Happy Thanksgiving Act Man enjoy your day!

[@bandit6272]

Can confirm that during my years in the military, all we did was walk around looking for missiles. 10/10 realism

[@LocalGuardsman]

Something something “we need to find them WMDs”

[@Yamom395]

And drugs that grow from plants.

[@Milkshakeenthusiast]

*GAS FILLED missiles to be precise 🤓

[@sirzmo]

thats what 'charlie mike' means "continue looking for missiles"

[@The_Sleepiest_Socialist]

69/100 realism, according to my experience as the military supreme leader of North Korea.

[@robertf.atrozskin3596]

"Apathy is death, worse than death, because even a rotten corpse can feed the beasts and insects"- Kreia

[@dbank6107]

Now that was a game!

[@leviticusprime4904]

@John-PaulHunt-wy7lf how far can we fall

[@laran1708]

​@@leviticusprime4904can get much lower

[@SLqB11]

Apathy is perfect.

[@hawkeyenextgen7117]

Yuri did not die for this. Soap did not die for this. Sandman did not die for this. Ghost did not die for this. Roach did not die for this.

[@Trevor_on_Youtube]

In COD 4, Price beat and choked a man and then killed him once he learned Zakhaev was the boss. In COD 2019 he used the butchers family as leverage and was willing to kill his son. In MW3 he won’t let Soap kill Makaroov after he killed thousands of innocent people, but then kills Shepard out of revenge. Call of Duty: We don’t have consistency but we do have Nicki Minaj.

[@PotentSenzu]

Boy, you got my heartbeat runnin' away Beating like a drum and it's coming your way Can't you hear that Boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass? He got that super bass Boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass Yeah that's that super bass

[@Tomewarden]

Nicki Minaj isn't even good.

[@CowKirbo]

Exactly. Also the fact that Makarov is not dead by the end of this game proves this is a cash grab and nothing more. If it were trying to be even remotely similar to the OGs this game would be the end of it.

[@Deagnetic]

Especially when in MW2019 his whole character is someone willing to go maybe even too far to protect others and get the job done. The whole back and fourth with Gaz on whats too far and what isnt in that game was really good. MW2019 Price would have let Soap paint the inside of that black hawk red.

[@Death_Chopper]

@@Deagnetic yep, I remember Price saying "We draw the line where we need to", Price would do anything to stop the bad guys and protect innocents.The game gave you the impression that he threw morals out of the window a while ago, be it throwing a civilian with a suicide vest off a balcony to save others, or shooting at a civilian because they would have reached a detonantor.

[@alexryherd9810]

Got a friend who blondly simps for COD every year no matter how bad it is. His defence for this one was "nobody plays the game for the story anyway so who cares if irs bad?" Then says the mp is the best in years but never has anything positive to say about it when hes playing it lol. This is the reason these devs are able to fuck shit up so bad so consistently

[@morisco56]

The thing is that cod fans are mentally ill so why blame them when they can't control it?

[@theblackenedvoid3539]

i stopped playing cod after black ops 1. so basicly i checked out of cod 13 almoat 14 years ago. i don't understand how people can continue to play the same game series for like 20 years straight and not die of bordom...

[@alexryherd9810]

@theblackenedvoid3539 it's ridiculous

[@jnb_110]

Your “friend” is part of the problem, those kind of people keep on blindly eating the same shit these triple A devs have been puking out. Standards have been fked because of them, best to just cut off ties with your friend.

[@alexryherd9810]

@jnb_110 I wouldn't call him a "friend" he IS my friend, he's a good dude but he's CODs abused girlfriend lol, he can change them!

[@calebjennings1027]

“Are you depressed?” “No” “You look like you played the MW3 campaign”

[@SampledTax7]

MW3 in the 2020s campaign* This game is NOT MW3, it's MW7, the modern of warfare remake of coll of duty, the warfare

[@SithEmpiredidnothingwrong]

Poor chap was looking for more missiles

[@Internetperson66]

Fuck, I wish I thought of that.

[@Lugghandle]

Imagine being one of people who bought it just for its MP loop.

[@GrayD_Fox]

MWIII

[@m-purethoughtz2498]

“Anytime you compare a new CoD to Ghosts and Ghosts comes out on top somehow…you know you done fucked it up”. -Act Man

[@hieloz]

BO3 was the start of the CoD downfall people can argue it was good but it lost its CoD loving ways

[@deathsdoor07]

I gave up on Ghosts after five minutes.

[@SacredBlazeXxX]

Ghosts it's almost objectively the point when fans gave up on CoD as a whole. AW and the whole Futuristic Saga was just the nail in the coffin.

[@brianabalos4878]

Ghost was the last COD game I've ever played and I looked forward to playing it too with how incredible BO1 was. At the end of the Ghost campaign, I've asked "that was it?". Blizzard and Activision should really cease to exist right now.

[@hieloz]

@@SacredBlazeXxX agreed the futuristic shit was stupid

[@ladyofolyas]

Graves wasn't in the tank. Makarov wasn't in the helicopter. And Soap's brain wasn't in his head. A+ writing

[@thomasmoran8958]

Any actual ending wasn't in the game

[@JustSomebody2004]

What helicopter lmao?

[@ianperry2763]

Brought to you by ChatGPT.

[@fireflyraven2760]

Apparently so since they have nothing to go off of good thing I didn't buy it stopped at black ops 4 and that's where I'm stayin fuck wwll fuck infinite warfare will not come within hair's of touching those titles

[@u.gplayz6873]

"Creative writing" - Kate laswell mw22

[@torifin755]

MW3 Back then: US getting invaded MW3 now: Russian Ben Shaperio is slightly upset

[@Gen_ShadowCompany_203]

Europe was invaded; the US was invaded in MW2 and ended on the first two missions of MW3

[@LawrenceACD]

This is O.D.A Foxtrot! The russians are disengaging! We got em on their heels!

[@DarthSnake058]

Mw3 (2011): WW3 comes to fruition Mw3 (2023): Wtf is this?

[@guifire9747]

@@Gen_ShadowCompany_203 God that was so cool the SAS discovering the bombs, then the French's GIGN and German Army supporting DF while fighting for their lives, all the while the 141 travel in Africa until Prague's infilitration, what a campaign, MW2 to BO2 was really the best CoD campaign will ever have it seems

[@Grunt_Gaming]

For this Thanksgiving I’m thankful for the 70$ I did NOT use for this years CoD. 🙏

[@jonathanbullock961]

Thankful that I got a refund for my $70

[@ogtreyjerome]

Top comment!

[@justanotherafol9723]

I’m thankful for Act Man live-streaming himself playing the MW3 campaign.

[@theyuca-clan4239]

Same

[@phoenixwillrise7319]

Probably should stop following Cod around and maybe play something you like. As I don't go on Fortnite or any game for that matter I don't like an hate on it.

[@GuntherWenk]

The fact they killed Shepard, one of the original main villains of the OG trilogy, in a cutscene just is all sorts of shameful.

[@Lordoftheringwraiths]

In an AFTER-CREDITS cutscene, no less. Talk about poor pacing

[@ptrcrispy]

Like in MW2?

[@SionicK]

​@rayankhatib8352he didn't do anything at all he Just been a jackas' behind the scenes with no backbone

[@safs3098]

​@@ptrcrispy no, in MW2 you actually play a mission and fight to get to him and then kill him in the gameplay. Stop being intentionally ignorant

[@commander2552]

​@@ptrcrispyog mw2 actually had a story with build up. Felt good killing Shepard here, who TF gives a shit

[@Tigurai]

"Are you a bad Call of Duty?" "No!" "Well you look like one."

[@ChandranPrema123]

At least it's better than Vanguard in terms of Multiplayer and Zombies but slightly 🤏

[@charlesa6142]

@@ChandranPrema123even the campaign for MW2023 is better than Vanguard’s trash campaign..

[@fanatical6903]

Hot take: Vanguard's campaign is better simply due to the fact we get some diverse locations, no bullshit open combat missions, and no armoured enemies that take ages to kill.

[@charlesa6142]

@@fanatical6903 but also, most of Vanguard’s campaign takes place in flashbacks. Japanese soldiers had STG-44s.. and the main playable crew wasn’t even likable, in the least. At least I like the crew in mw3, even though this year’s campaign was eh

[@doughlausprashaal7151]

Both are garbage simple as that that why would you compare dog turds with cat turds

[@ShadowReaper-pu2hx]

Just wait for Modern Warfare IV where you try to stop Makarov from getting all the Infinity Missiles before he launches them and you have to wait for Modern Warfare V where there’s a crossover with zombies in which you use the Voodoo-Aether Time Machine 69000 to go back in time and stop him.

[@Endru85x]

Then the time machine has a malfunction and Cpt. Price from WWII travels to future, meets modern Price and asks him 'are we in some kind of Modern Warfare".

[@farahahmedkarim377]

I'd actually like that lol

[@allanorme2093]

@@Endru85x "So this is Modern Warfare" "the fish are ZOMBIES! THEIR COD ZOMIES"

[@The_Weasel_]

MWIV: Ghost: "Soap? You're alive? How?" Soap: "You see, that was my twin brother Hand Sanitizer."

[@ABSolution2468]

Ghost: "Johnny. I thought you died in the tunnels!" Soap: "Well i wasn't in that tunnel."

[@Spillow-C]

what a shame JC... Soap was a good man, what a rotten way to die

[@Merc7734]

​@@Spillow-C Ghost: OMG Price! A bomb! Price: A bomb!

[@Spillow-C]

@@Merc7734 we've got 10 seconds to disarm it before it adds us to the list of NSF casualties

[@NoobKillerRoof]

Don't pretend Activision can count to four

[@jsullivan649]

Don't forget, Soap was BEHIND him and somehow missed a clear knife to the head and that dude just shrugged off a knife in the upper neck area and pops him in the head.... soap deserves better than to die to a "hacker"

[@miltonharris2126]

Dude I had to replay that part five times to make sure my eyes wasn’t seeing things and I thought that was the stupidest shit ever

[@jsullivan649]

@@miltonharris2126 right!! I was blown away seeing THIS is how the handled a fan favorite's character.

[@SeaGLGaming]

Soap also had a gun in his drop leg holster but decided to get up when Makarov had men behind him and try to stab him.

[@popbee10]

This make me thing back of OG Soap pull a knife out of his chest and still managed to throw it right at Shepherd's eye socket. This is unacceptable

[@dillonc7955]

Don't worry, I'm sure in MWIV you won't be able to kill anyone because Activision will want to use everyone as operator skins so they will all have plot armor.

[@DarthPho3nix33]

In the first two games the stakes and consequences felt so low to me because there were no major characters dying, and now when they finally decide to have the balls to do just that, they do it in the most anticlimactic and emotionless way possible

[@wizardgaming6759]

The characters dying wasn’t really the thing that raised the stakes for me, but the fact that I knew what the motivations were, and how scary they were. Like I knew that Makarov wanted to start WW3. It this trilogy I have zero clue what motivations are.

[@justsomefetus1597]

I loved when the writers said "now I have become lazy, destroyer of coninuity" 10/10 would refund again 💯 🗣

[@pepinowhite5014]

What writers? There probably were none lmao

[@medojed8266]

@@pepinowhite5014 6 writers actually

[@ShaktiChaturvedi]

​@@medojed8266Then why is it worse than ChatGPT

[@icannotthinkofaname6248]

@@medojed82666 toddlers from bring your kid to work day

[@anthonyguiness9]

I feel sorry for the writers in all honesty, along with the rest of the developers. Sounds like they had very little time to work on the game

[@Internetperson66]

Guy: “Are you a terrorist”. The main character: “No”. Speech level 100

[@Matt_MR]

I don't think you understand the meaning of that scene.

[@OrionDawn15]

@@Matt_MR The meaning doesn't matter when the scene is as stupid and poorly executed as it is. That dialogue exchange was just goofy.

[@kylebriggs8895]

Bro that’s literally the best moment in the whole campaign

[@UltraAlex2000]

@@kylebriggs8895 the best of what is essentially like dipping your balls in caustic soda is still like dipping your balls in caustic soda

[@davidstinger1134]

Plot twist: the person he grabbed was arab, it's just the guy is racist.

[@RAIDEN9001]

It feels like they killed Soap just because he died in the 3rd game. Not remembering why it was so impactful. The tragedy of Price being the last og member, Soaps final words were likely of warning Price in case Yuri was a traitor. The music, the moment of silence. And Price's fury, demanding how Makarov knows Yuri. This game has had me relook at the og Mw3 and see there was more of an attempt of decent, to now good because the bar has lowered so low.

[@horeckilarion3310]

As someone who completly missed this reboot MW series, i dont even know whats going on here, i tought they just filled in the void between the episodes or something but wtf they completly changed the stroy, its like personaly insulting my childhood.

[@horeckilarion3310]

And ofc they had to necro this characters because none of their other tries come even close to the OG MW cast (well Black ops was also good)

[@JohnPeacekeeper]

Yuri also got done so dirty here too because we barely had him compared to the OG

[@kenzieuchiha1191]

​@@JohnPeacekeeperAs insulting as this portrayal was to Yuri, hopefully he doesn't come back for IV just to be butchered more.

[@davidstinger1134]

Same in MW2 with Shepard's betrayal. Except this time everytime they repeat something that happened in the previous games it has almost zero impact.

[@dilloncrowe1018]

God, remember the death of Soap in the original MW3? SO impactful, SO iconic to the franchise and the characters around him. In this game he just gets shot in the head, and Price just has an "oh... f*ck" look on his face.

[@switch317]

There's another funny thing about the campaign that Bricky(KZbinr) pointed out, when Price was calling Laswell to evac or something because 2 missiles launched, from Price POV you can see the missiles just took off right? Like it's still there, but when we cut to Laswell's perspective when she received the message, the missiles somehow already landed at her area despite the fact that on Price POV it just launched, and that's fucking hilarious.

[@Loki-]

It's like Danaerys and her Dragon Air across Westeros

[@spardasquadspqr3535]

Oh yh i seen it.... i was like, are they 10 miles away or something so them icbms reached them so fast?

[@switch317]

@@spardasquadspqr3535 I didn't realize it at first until it was pointed out lol

[@guifire9747]

Either Laswell reveive message with birds or those missiles could give the Flash a run for his money

[@allanorme2093]

Laswell had bad ping

[@onejediboi]

I never thought I’d see the day where people are saying they’d rather play black ops 3’s campaign than this

[@The_Jackpurgis]

Train go boom

[@TheActMan]

MW3's Campaign makes Black Ops 3's Campaign look like Citizen Kane

[@mafata4200]

If anything, at least it was VERY ambitious. It didn't work, but they really wanted to make something unique

[@atilamaldonado8944]

Black Ops 3 campaign looks like a masterpiece compare to this one.

[@MUSTANG_P51]

Hell, I would rather play Vanguard’s campaign over this one.

[@Dillon4599]

The most emotional moment in this campaign was when you had to press V to Makarov. Truly one of the games of 2023.

[@donaldslayer]

Truly one of the dlcs of 2023

[@ElJay646]

@@donaldslayerTruly one of the scams of 2023

[@Changingtesting]

Truly the most dramatic moment of the entire game. V to makarov…

[@KABLAMMATS]

That's not Makarov, that's Makarov cosplayer

[@brianabalos4878]

V to MAKOROV!

[@davidstinger1134]

For me the worst part is that it didn't make me cringe at all, in fact, it didn't make me feel anything, I felt complete apathy towards anything happening in it. I remember back in the day spending maybe 30 mins a day searching for info on MW2 when it was coming out, and then the same for MW3, and not just the multiplayer, but also the story. And now it's just, who cares.

[@craigkuhlman6869]

A real shame. You know the Kreia line.

[@Boss_Fight_Index_muki]

Consumers: "So that 235Gb install size means it has a complete campaign, right?" Activision CEO:

[@Void6-]

The worst part is that pretty much every mission is just taken from the warzone map. Why is this so heavy? You didnt add anything!

[@mayonotes9849]

​@@Void6-Lack of optimization.

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

Introducing our new live service plan for Call of Duty. Every week is a new chapter, and all previous chapters are always available for download. Ta-da!

[@Makrel94]

How can it be 235Gb ? 💀

[@iratepirate3896]

Bloat to try and dissuade pirates (which doesn't work because pirates have more hard drive space than anyone else) @@Makrel94

[@mickthick6170]

Price, Ghost and Kyle tossing Soap's ashes into the wind while standing at the edge of a cliffside sounds like a prompt I would plug into an AI image generator

[@tianqi5008]

Press F to throw Soap's ashes into the wind.

[@czaczaczar]

Imagine the wind changing towards them & accidentally inhaling Soap's ashes.

[@shemshate]

​@czaczaczar Well Ghost would still be safe because he can't be fucked to take off his mask for the funeral smh.

[@lukasd7760]

All I could think about was the scene from Big Lebowski when the ashes get blown into their faces

[@MistahhMingus]

@@lukasd7760was just gonna comment this omfg

[@andrewrogers3067]

The worst type of stories are those that take something good that's already established and ruin it. Vanguard was bad, but it didn't damage or destroy established titles. This and Soaps death did huge damage to what was build up to be a decent trilogy overall.

[@andrewrogers3067]

Hearted by Act Man, I am honored. Happy Thanksgiving gentlemen.

[@BanditoBurrito]

I don’t know why they decided to give Ghost an actual custom made mask instead of just a balaclava. I feel like any guy doing that in real life would be relentlessly teased by everyone in his unit.

[@___SourR34___]

Fan service

[@rottingarchangeloi2734]

Idk how it is in other countries but where I’m from that wouldn’t even be allowed, anything that isn’t issued to you in service is gonna get confiscated asap, standing out / wearing something that could be used against you (the mask looks like it has some hard parts that could be broken and that could also cause injury ig?) has to be out of the way.

[@allanorme2093]

@@rottingarchangeloi2734 Not to mention the lack of vision because the dude smears makeup around his eyes

[@rottingarchangeloi2734]

@@allanorme2093 I’ve heard of face paint but yeah that as well, I don’t really understand why he would do that. Makeup gets super runny when wet or anything really so that’s a good point

[@flamingburitto]

When soap died, my reaction wasn't awe, shock, or anything. It was laughter, i didn't think this game could go any lower, but then it didn't just bring a shovel, it brought a freaking excavator.

[@charleswinters9567]

I didn't even react. Like, at all.

[@TKOfromJohn]

​@@charleswinters9567I'm going to just go ahead and say anything after the original mw3 isn't canon. Nobody that worked on those games worked on these games anyway so...

[@demonslayer5122]

​​@@TKOfromJohnThey're reboots, so they were never canon to the original trilogy in the first place. Thank Christ for that... MW3 somehow managed to get lower than Vanguard.

[@guifire9747]

@@demonslayer5122 I love how at the time of Ghost, everyone thought Cod hit rock bottom (that was just after prime Cod era with the original MW and Black Ops 1 and 2 after all) but they like to prove us wrong, Ghost is getting better and better just because new entries take his place as the worst one making it feel no that bad overall, at least someone gave a fuck about Ghost enough to try writing a decent story and actual maps

[@jarvy251]

18:50 It blew my mind when he just played some music in the background and it instantly made the game feel interesting

[@thebryster240]

It's sad

[@QJ89]

I'm listening to the soundtrack of this game, by Walter Mair, as I type this. Activision clearly did not use much of it.

[@rykersatori]

ye the OG mw2 music he played still hits hard

[@evilcommunistpicklerick3175]

@@rykersatori Pretty sure that's 'Black cats' from CoD WaW!

[@Darce115]

@@rykersatorithat track is from world at war

[@Jacket_50_Blessings]

When that hijacker said, "Are you a terrorist?" It reminded me of that Japanese Soldier in Vanguard saying, "Do you speak Japanese?" in English.

[@NamelessAddy]

10/10 writing

[@cjilagan3216]

That's the only thing I thought was cool in that mission. The way the hijacker said that was like he's the main villain😂

[@eeeeee8762]

​@cjilagan3216 "You the main character?" "No" "Well you sound like one." What's more hilarious to me is that the person he's saying that to is middle eastern, it sounds racist as hell 😂

[@RAIDEN9001]

I'm sorry. I don't speak Japanese -Edward Richtofen

[@Jacket_50_Blessings]

@@RAIDEN9001 Only real call of duty fans know that line and you sir are one.

[@KillaIn556]

It's like that one line from Black Ops 3 but with a Plane "plane go boom"

[@CapitalTeeth]

"Stop this terrorist attack!" ought to be this game's entire plot, several times over.

[@maximus2536]

The thing is there is nothing wrong with that, as long as you do it properly which the game clearly doesn't.

[@dillonc7955]

Shepherd: "Stop this terrorist attack" Ghost: "Okay" *stops terrorist attack* Shepherd: "Good job" Literally 90% of the plot

[@Ioganstone]

@@maximus2536 Nah even with a militant you can do disruptive things and even facilitate negotiation as a military

[@Ioganstone]

Hmm looks like my other comment basically saying that neoliberals do not care about stopping criminals in the act but do like pre-emptive striking in all kinds of ways was removed faster than a YT comment with a link in it

[@maximus2536]

@@Ioganstone you want to negotiate in a COD action game?

[@samulityyska2269]

Soap's death in MW3 (2011): *Very dramatic, with Price getting emotional and desperate, while being clearly traumatized by his death* Soap's death in MW3 (2023): "One KIA". Oh, I guess he died🤷‍♂️

[@Trophy-Hunter30]

Also, after soap death, price dropped a sick poem soap trusted you. I thought I could too. So How The hell does Makarov know you?

[@thepaywall7900]

​@@Trophy-Hunter30yooo thanks for reminding me of that gem

[@JustSomebody2004]

Remember.This isn’t Modern Warfare.It’s Realistic Warfare

[@cadettrev762]

⁠@@JustSomebody2004Modern FPS: III

[@CROWGUN]

It really upset me when I fucking first saw that like they killed my boy with no honor like if you’re gonna kill off a main character like that, make it a better moment, make him go out in a blaze of glory. Remember, when Dom sacrificed himself in gears it was a hell of a moment.

[@MHGFTW]

They've somehow lost their ability to hook the player into the story. Just look at black ops. You wake up in a chair and right away the character starts asking the questions we also have: "Who are you? Where am I? The fuck do you want from me?!". This one just starts with you shooting people. The only question you have is "Is there a story here?".

[@troypowers750]

Ghosts: First time?

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

“How do we get these people into the story of our shooty game?” “Have them start of shooting?” “Genius. No characters, no names, no background. Just shooty. Saves on the budget for the story team.”

[@AceOfBlackjack]

@@troypowers750Did you just not pay attention? It's got some of the best characters.

[@troypowers750]

@@AceOfBlackjack ... *_uhmmm... k._*

[@NamelessAddy]

​@@AceOfBlackjackgreat characters doesn't equate to story

[@TravisBroski]

The fact that Makarov constantly failed and never put a huge dent in the world like he did in the original is disappointing. Like even when he pulled off a blown-up plane, his objective to frame Farah and her forces as villains is foiled and it means nothing.

[@zachschwartz35]

It's funny watching The Act Man's slow realization of how bad this truly is. "Graves is back? I thought we killed him." "No no it's not about finding the missiles again? I already did that. They wouldn't shut up about it." "So are they just re-using Warzone maps for these levels?"

[@davidstinger1134]

Arthur Morgan realizing the farm couple were brother and sister vibes.

[@hcook1023]

"No Russian" was one of the most iconic moments in all videogames, in my young life that was the first time I understood the story telling in gaming

[@petrspetsnaz630]

Shephard betrayal, Price calling Makarov for help "enemy of my enemy is...", Soap removing knife from his chest to throw it at Shephard. So many great moments i still remember after i played it 12 years ago

[@danyalreza8050]

I know right? Makarov was a 10/10 villain! Someone you feared, despised, and actually respected as a villain. His speeches, his actions, even his motives

[@petrspetsnaz630]

@@danyalreza8050 MW2 had 2 awesome villians, both having great charisma and amazing acting

[@danyalreza8050]

@@petrspetsnaz630 oh definitely. I’m even working on a General Shepherd cosplay because he’s just such a badass villain. Up until his betrayal I even though he was just an awesome general. His speeches made me patriotic and I’m not even an American!

[@nicolae-alexandruluca7853]

I think it was too brutal to showcase and they didn't get authorization to show in the game anymore so yeah

[@CourtSoul]

I remember having an argument with a friend over how Graves returned. He told me that it's my fault that I didn't stay caught up in the multiplayer cutscenes. Seeing you also confused that he was just brought back with zero explanation or reveal was very justifying

[@Chaotic_H3LL]

Your friend is disabled. Expecting someone to need outside material to understand a games story (Outside of the previous campaigns given its a trilogy) is the same braindead logic that led to Halo 5s camapign being so bad

[@2djman]

There was a multiplayer cutscene?? What, they rewrote the campaign ending in some seasonal cutscene?

[@TheActMan]

It gave me Halo 5 flashbacks lmao

[@somethingawesome1462]

@@2djmanI went looking for it but I guess in warzone he was in a couple seasons for some reason. But I don’t really like warzone so I don’t know why they are trying to turn COD into marvel

[@sebastiannienow6981]

Somehow Graves returned

[@WolfyRagnarok]

Adding that music made quite a difference! Really drives home the importance of a soundtrack.

[@samuelsherman5513]

I like that they brought back Alex and Graves basically in Warzone promotional cutscenes and then just acted like no further explanation would be needed in the next campaign. Which to be fair they were kind of right because it completely went over my head that Alex was supposed to be dead until somebody else pointed it out

[@falconofthenight008]

I thought Alex was supposed to be Ghost. Isn't Ghosts name literally Alex too? I am so confused now

[@fefega]

@@falconofthenight008 No his name is Simon

[@Jetiko27]

@@falconofthenight008 his name is Simon, but that's actually a better idea than what they had.

[@lordhelmchen3154]

When I started to watch a Let's Play of this campaign (I stopped after 2 episodes and didn't return because sleeping is more exciting than watching this warzone singleplayer) and Alex was just standing there I was actually about to be gaslit by the game and thought "wait, maybe it wasn't Alex who died? Or did they show him survive in the previous game?" but then there was Graves, who I definitely remember being in the exploding tank, and who is now just casually talking to Farah and that's when it clicked: The devs (cue GoT meme voice:) "just kind of forgot about continuity and writing"

[@highoctanesynx7950]

ALEX CAME BACK???????

[@kokroughtoss1257]

This is really sad. The first rebooted MW had so much promise. Interesting mission design, focused plot, real stakes, good music, and could've worked as a setup to something amazing. Instead, the whole rebooted MW trilogy just boils down to gas, missiles, and Sheperd shitting (MW2: "When we shit, we bury it" MW3: "Does a polar bear shit in snow?". That's literally it.

[@alsharef1]

Actually its sucks from the beginning, all of the rebooted series is cringy SJW bullshit , I’m not surprised at all that cod developers reached this level of sickness

[@lukecodz]

they make each game so much worse, and mw 2 had a chance of redeeming modern cod after the disgrace called vanguard. ofc ACTIVISION fumbled this after rushing this production which should have been a $30 DLC at most.

[@citiestoash]

@@lukecodzHonestly. Cods been in the shitter got 5+ years now. If y’all took this long to realize it. Activision deserves your money

[@CyberSonic-V3.0]

I honestly feel like the moment that made me begin doubting the direction the reboots were going in was when they brought back Alex in warzone. From there it not only established outside things like Warzone being needed to understand the main campaign storyline but that major characters can be brought back to life no mattee how contrived or unnecessary. Then 2022 comes and it doesn’t really follow up any plot lines from the first game and it’s just “where’s the missiles!?” With a plot that has some contrivances like letting the terrorist dude escape. The most redeeming part of that game for me was the gameplay being a bit out there for COD and nice dynamics between the characters. Then the raids happen and kill Hadir when he was set up in the first game to be a villain moving forward along with bringing back Graves. Now we’re in MW3 and we have a villain who has hardly been set up at all and pales in comparison to the original and the death of an underutilized character because “Well Soap died in the original MW3 so he has to die here”. So much promise in the first game and now it’s just an action blockbuster series that pales in comparison to the originals in many many ways.

[@Eva01-jy2qu7pu9r]

@@alsharef1COD MW3 is definitely SJW woke bullshit. The first game at least attempted to revive the series with more realism and grittiness than ever, until each proceeding game got worse in how they approached the tone of this series. MWII tried to mix the original and new games together and was somewhat successful in that case, but then this shit flat out ruins everything we liked from the first two so it can set up more garbage and even more woke sequels.

[@Eva01-jy2qu7pu9r]

I like the part when the terrorist asked Samara if she was a terrorist, and she said no. Truly a COD moment of all time

[@balabanasireti]

Unoriginal

[@Eva01-jy2qu7pu9r]

@@balabanasiretiAn unoriginal joke for an unoriginal game. Symmetry my friend

[@cmdrgraves3308]

@@balabanasiretimiserable old man yells at clouds

[@colegilbert673]

When I saw the character being called Samara, all I thought was: "Is this woman the namesake of the Nazi-affiliated Russian traitor warlord state?"

[@MG-po6jc]

@@balabanasireti Classic unoriginal L + Ratio comment to you friend

[@official_defy]

Soap's death in OG MW3 was emotional and impactful. I do believe Barry Sloane, who plays Price, could have shown that emotional depth as an actor in this new version of MW3. Hope to see something more from CoD in the future and we get a return to form with the writing in these games

[@raygunner4970]

When “Train go boom” is a better plot than the entirety of this COD game’s story:

[@andrewowens4421]

At least you had some fun in that one and got to head scratch because of crazy sci-fi instead of... _this?_

[@channel45853]

Eh, citing a comedic line that may have not been funny to you in a game doesn't automatically make that game bad

[@davidstinger1134]

Sledgehammer will make Black Ops 3 2 and it will turn out the train wasn't there to begin with.

[@georgewhitworth9742]

@@channel45853Eh, having an incorrect opinion doesn't make it correct.

[@channel45853]

@@georgewhitworth9742 very smart response

[@farahahmedkarim377]

Yo, I'm not gonna lie; your "wE fOuNd ThE pOrN, a LoTtA fUrRy ShIt In HeRe" line made me burst out laughing to the point of crying

[@QJ89]

Accompanied with the unironic best thing from 'Ride To Hell.'

[@dbx_lxrd5799]

The delivery was so good

[@emma6648]

@@QJ89that was the worst thing from ride to hell though those were cringey and lowkey disrespectful 💀

[@QJ89]

@@emma6648 Yes, the scenes themselves are atroctious and tone-deaf, but at least the music offers some enjoyability, ironic or no.

[@cristianarreola7246]

14:14

[@polypython]

The difference between the reaction to Soaps death in the original MW3 and the new MW3 is like night and day. In the original, you could really feel how hurt Price was. In this game, Soap just kinda dies, and that's it.

[@demonslayer5122]

Exactly. In the original, Price losing his cool broke me. In the reboot, nothing.

[@HalTheBot]

inb4 "it's more realistic"

[@Ikaros---]

end of original MW2: intense battle between Price and Shepard, finished with a throwing knife to the eye from Soap, ends with both of them dying in a desert until Nikolai saves the day end of new MW3: Shepard says he won't beg for his life in after credit scene, Price says it won't matter, *bang*. credits roll. I'm 99% sure that all the old Call of Duty developers have left, the studios have forgotten how to make games, and that the ones in charge of writing were the kids from the multiplayer lobbies back then

[@glamrockbonnie5983]

I mean Price and Soap weren't close but I feel like if you pay more attention to Ghosts reaction since him and soap were close he was hurt the most there

[@zxjacksterxz]

"Do you hate yourself?" "No." "You look like you paid 70$ for DLC."

[@MidnightIX]

The stadium mission was so embarrassing because the civilians acted so emotionless. Idk how they could had managed that, look at 2019 when you feel and see and hear the fear the npcs had in Piccadilly, hometown, and the embassy

[@koolkidz6263]

even Embassy had that, there were stakes, this game is supposed to be the biggest sense of danger, but the effects are so minimal and for some reason always thwarted by the main leads that it started to annoy me a lot. Also those "No Russian" missions, i wish they would let us play as the terrorist and should've been at the start of the campaign, not at the middle of the story cause it makes it so messy and scattershot

[@usgatlas2085]

I'll do you one better, No Russian on the OG MW2. The civilians were either running away, bleeding to death or trying to save someone else. That was from a 14 year old game and had more immersion than this dog shit dlc

[@koolkidz6263]

@@usgatlas2085 FACTS FACTS FACTS

[@Slawa_Saporogez]

They could write this mission, as the Counter Terrorist team had not known who the terrorists were exactly, so they shot everybody on sight with respective consequences at the end of the mission, where Makarov blames Price and CT team for unnecessary civilian casualties. Assuming the capture of Makarov, escort of Makarov and destruction of the airport at the end of the mission stay.

[@MidnightIX]

@@Slawa_Saporogez I actually love this idea for the mission, you should had been the writer for MW3. The stadium mission reminded me of Piccadilly because it was a terrorist attack but it was such a downgrade

[@hand_and_justin_entertainment]

History has repeated itself, but it's even worse than last time. Karma kills.

[@TheDankestSand]

Mw3 in the Og trilogy was mid and now in the new mw3 is trash

[@qg1235]

Nah man, the original MW3 was really, really good. You only say it was mid because the true, original MW2 is the best COD ever made. Of course anything that came after that would be a downgrade. They haven't made a better COD game since the original MW3 too@@TheDankestSand

[@sheldonjplanktonn]

The original trilogy was an awesome story, writing, and presentation. Especially when you consider the time. These last 3 games bring so much shame to the trilogy name......the whole studio needs to perform a seppuku

[@channel45853]

True, MW 2019, like original MW, tried to be realistic and show the realities and consequences of War, while MW 2 and MWII tried to go for more of a Hollywoodish feel and they were considered better than what came before and then MW3 and MWIII came out and they were considered the lesser of their respective trilogies and were disliked or controversial..

[@ThatDudeCalled]

The voice actor for the english soldiers must have developed the same throat condition filthy frank did. As an englishman I find their accents FAKKIN HILARIOUS MATE

[@steventdavies]

THAT'LL DO

[@Dd-ks2fm]

The scottish one is funny as fuck. Cunt went to the Gerald butler school of accents

[@zen_7748]

Unironically, having one of those soldiers say something Filthy Frank did would have made the campaign more bearable. Slightly.

[@quakethedoombringer]

I thought i was the only one thinking that every Brit character, especially Price, sound like they should be in the hospital, not on the field

[@zaneheaston8254]

Is Filthy Frank the main character of Dead Rising 4

[@Borgmatha1027]

The longer I think about Soap's death here, the angrier I get. Soap's death was so impactful to me, it was one of the first times I felt so emotional over a character death in a video game. This though, is an insult to OG MW3 in almost every conceivable way. I was hesitant to buy it before, but this just sealed it. Fuck this game, and fuck Activision.

[@MicrosoftNestleTea]

There's a super secret mid-credits cutscene that activates once you beat the game on Veteran, deathless, and in under 2 hours. Ghost, but from the future, takes Soap's ashes and uses them to reconstruct Soap with cybernetics, paving the way for Call of Duty Advanced Warfare.

[@Jaucookie]

Wait you fr?

[@craigkuhlman6869]

This definitely sounds like meme-ing, but I wouldn't put it past Activision to do this

[@googleisevil8958]

That sadly sounds better than what we have now... how is a meme better than modern-day storytelling?

[@farahahmedkarim377]

They'd definitely do that

[@obijuanquenobi1911]

We can rebuild him. We have the technology.

[@Codamans]

the fact Actor Male even tried to compare this campaign to Ghosts is a travesty. Even with all the flaws Ghosts had, atleast it was mostly coherent and so much fun to play.....and had MUSIC

[@brucelindahl9814]

That's true to a point, even though ghosts campaign was just somewhat boring, this campaign is just full on cringe.

[@TreeskoTHQ]

Don’t forget the dog models bro, the dog models, lmfao

[@Axatron]

The main villain was good too. Too bad it ended on a cliff-hanger.

[@z-man1237]

Yeah and least ghost had some interesting missions. The Scuba Diving and Space Satellite missions were fun to play

[@lancethedecayedguardian2719]

​ @AlejandroIrujo The fish ai was so revolutionary too, we can't ever forget that...THEY MOVED OUT OF THE WAY GUYS

[@dondoe1328]

I liked how anytime Makarov had a plan here it immediately gets resolved in the next mission

[@aquaticnub1399]

Like some goofy cartoon bullshir I just imagine malaria going:”Ahh my plans, foiled again!”

[@TouchscreamPresents]

To me honestly the entire reboot has felt like a parody of the amazing games we grew to love a decade ago

[@Winasaurus]

Remember when Soap died in MW3 and it sparked arguably the single most important part of the campaign, where Yuri reveals to Price how he'd been working with Makarov and how he was behind almost all of the major incidents in the previous games? Remember when Soap died in this MW3 by stubbing his toe on a subway handrail and they just threw his ashes off a cliff? I'm only slightly exaggerating the events, but I'm dead on accurate for how much impact it had on anything.

[@cattysplat]

In b4 Soap's long lost identical brother who's actually a clone comes back for the next game.

[@Joshua-do7vo]

“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” ― JRR Tolkien

[@Naz-xk6hq]

2009: two entire missions are dedicated to hunting down and killing Shepherd and ends with a badass knife throw removed from your chest. 2023: *lame cutscene*

[@adarshlokhande7653]

After the last mission shepherd was no use for the team what did you expect

[@colinsavage5744]

A decent story maybe even some game play

[@Ioo-nd6hf]

​@@adarshlokhande7653the satisfying closure of doing the job yourself in game? At least OG Shepherd got what he deserved by the player.

[@migasgt638]

not even a lame cutscene, a POST-CREDIT lame cutscene

[@crzzymnn911]

The plot is actually kind of impressive. When you consider the fact the writers were actual monkeys.

[@untitled458]

Exactly

[@fefega]

Instead of writing Shakespeare, the monkeys decided to write the story for MW 2023 huh.

[@RipRLeeErmey]

​@@fefega This was in the transitionary point where they were just beginning to understand English. They'd go on to write Shakespeare a few thousand years later.

[@panzermorph]

and it didnt even take a trillion years as anticipated, lunch break was enough @@fefega

[@karlthorsten9118]

Calling the writers monkeys is an insult to actual monkeys. Monkeys and apes are far more intelligent. I'm pretty sure a singular braindead ant with fungus growing out of it's head can write something better.

[@Two3Freeze]

This is the first time I've seen the whole story and holy shit lmfao. That Soap death is almost hard to believe it's so poorly done

[@shirokatatsu5886]

Soap's death in the original is a tragedy, this is just for shock factor.

[@Ioo-nd6hf]

Truth. Soaps death was at least done in an acceptable manner in the OG MW3. This '23 MW3 fate just a troll kill to humiliate the player and ruin soaps legacy on purpose because it was so senseless.

[@shirokatatsu5886]

@@Ioo-nd6hf you mean the whole trilogy ? Makarov in OG pinned everything on fucking America and cause WW3. What the hell this Makarov even do ? I can lists a ton of things gone wrong in this game but it gonna be an essay and I don't want to give anymore care more than the devs do. "The thing that can change the world is the will of a single man"

[@Ioo-nd6hf]

​​​​@@shirokatatsu5886yes I mean the OG trilogy. Classic Mak knew who he was, what he wanted, what he was about and willing to do for it. He had the look, eyes, mannerisms and voice of a real killer which made him believable, spoke and behaved methodically and with intent, was cunning and deviously clever enough that almost everything he did succeeds, his very smile told you shit was gonna go down in a moment, and that entrapping the team in Prague to bring soaps death moment made him excell as an iconic villain which made his proper end all the more satisfying. This Nu-Mak has no real definitive goal, not even as a successor to Zakaev (nowhere even mentioned in '23 version), has poor looking character design, speaks emotingly and behaves erratically, snides and sneers as a cheap amateur taunt, gets caught and fails in a 'plan' not well thought out which is very unlike him, then gets spared upon capture which is so unlike price, then just dropping in out of nowhere at the end and pops soap from behind without a single teammate doing overwatch is just pathetic because the circumstances is so pointless and unbelievable. Its so low impact that there's practically no stakes here to make any character death meaningful. NuMak gets away for another bill churning next year and like act man said, none of the teammates seem impacted by it. Why is this Nu-Mak even the antagonist? That's what I meant.

[@shirokatatsu5886]

@@Ioo-nd6hf "NO NO NO SOAP SOAP !!!!..........I'm sorry" . "Hey guys we got KIA here" the contrast are insane When I look at Nu-Mak I'm just stunned because there only WTF in my head. He look so generic, act so generic, everytime he open his mouth I'm just shake my head instead of being fear.

[@Bs_Void]

I think one of the main reasons why there's a lack of soundtrack is because their usual composer left. Sarah Schachner who has been composing scores since Infinite Warfare left either just before or just after MWII launched due to "the working dynamic with the audio director has become increasingly challenging and I don't see any path forward" quote Sarah herself via her Twitter or X or whatever it is rn

[@Moth.]

Sarah is awesome. I hope to see some more stuff from her soon. Anthem was obviously a mess, but the soundtrack SLAPS.

[@tritonk1759]

@@Moth. Her Assassin's Creed work is disgustingly phenomenal.

[@naedanger123]

Sarah deserves better than this shit tbh, good on her.

[@tritonk1759]

@@naedanger123 100%.

[@r3tr0_r3dux_2]

​@tritonk1759 which Assassin's Creed games did she work on?

[@loganpaschedag8829]

I would drink a shot for every time they say “Missiles” (including MW2) I for sure would die of alcohol poisoning! The horror! THE HORROR!!!

[@iWerli]

I'd rather be in the hospital getting my stomach pumped than play this game lmao

[@mwplayer3778]

Im pissed about how they wasted Alejandro's charecter

[@benmcreynolds8581]

When i was growing up in the 90's, being a teen in the 2000's who loved video games. I legit thought the future of gaming was going to be utterly amazing. It's not about graphics. It's increased gameplay mechanics, physics effects, damage effects, environment interaction options, engaging AI to play against in single player against CPU bots in offline modes, or good AI in the games campaign. It's just crazy how many current video games focus on graphical nitpicking and don't put any effort into any of the other things that make games that even have quirky graphics but make it so awesome due to creative art style, gameplay style, gameplay modes, the list goes on.. idk what happened?

[@emilefragz1885]

Money and Simpleton gamers

[@omegacxv8344]

It's the gamers. Honestly, one of the worst communities out there. The amount of entitlement gamers have is fucking insane. Especially with regards to release dates. On top of that the split personalities of them, which is at Peek hights in the CoD community. But like you said, there are a lot of games that are unique and worth to play.

[@chantier24]

What happened is that most gamers have such low IQ, buying the same shitty AAA games every year.

[@nopenope2550]

@@omegacxv8344 Are you high? Gamers now have literally no standards whatsoever. The entire hobby has been taken over by passive idiots with no care for quality and who'll jump all over you for daring to criticize any aspect of any game because "the devs worked hard" or some other lame excuse. Entitlement my ass, gamers have become the most pathetic consumers imaginable.

[@steventdavies]

That's just how the industry works. If you're looking for something innovative, it's gonna come from the smaller studios.

[@NotBlue93]

I'm suprised of how you didn't notice that Alex (who technically died in MW1) came back because Activision did a cinematic for Warzone about him. So now he's in MW3 just like Graves... amazing.

[@cattysplat]

"Just treat your playerbase with goldfish memories and bring back all the team for max memberberries."

[@conspiracypanda1200]

Bringing characters back in Warzone events has real bad "Palpatine's announcement in Fortnite" energy.

[@TacticalBaguette]

I hate how they had so many major plot points happen in warzone events, so a few years down the line you have no way to know why Alex is alive or Shadow is good again besides looking it up online

[@quakethedoombringer]

Also spoiler alert, they killed off Hadir in the DLC and he didn't even get a mention in the base game

[@GrayD_Fox]

I was pretty fucking confused

[@jus__gra]

Physically died chocking from the “he’s going to be in zombies” line 🤣🤣

[@Cam_47]

Dude the immediate disappointment when FOAP gets shot..didn't even twitch. Shots hilariously bad.

[@TheLindenbeat]

How did we go from "we will be taking our time with the next cod to make it as good as possible" to "here's this rushed and glorified DLC that has the shortest development of any cod ever"?

[@MacCoy]

Greed and they get away with it.

[@VioIetteMolotov]

@@MacCoy This is it. They get away with it because fanboys of any franchise are just braindead addicts.

[@abdzaytoon3211]

Things that make events in old cods more impactful than the reboot especially after Soaps death in the reboot : 1- No cutscenes..you see everything from your eyes, your immersion is not broken...like : Cod4 Nuke/ Roach,Ghost,Gaz,Griggs,Yuri deaths/ Freeing cpt.price. 2- Music Choice: shepherd betrayal music also price and makarov speech in og mw2......russian soundtrack and black cats theme in cod world at war. 3- This one is personal : I liked the buildup to events in old games more than the new ones.

[@ALIEN-DUDE]

I agree with the first one so much and I don't even play COD.

[@channel45853]

No, just because a cutscene is in first person doesn't mean that the cutscene isn't a cutscene.

[@Akadia123]

Nothing can convince me otherwise that the writters pulled up chat GPT to come up with the plot for this game

[@nichi8404]

don't insult ai like that.

[@highoctanesynx7950]

​@@nichi8404i swear chatGPT can come up with something better 🤣

[@amirhomayoonfarmusic]

Dude, please. Don't insult ai

[@Endru85x]

Do you wanna get Skynet? Because this is how you get Skynet 😅

[@matt_l2003]

I asked ChatGPT to ‘write me a follow-up plot and script to MW2 2022 featuring the return of Makarov’, and I shit you not, within 3 seconds it generated this game’s plot word for word lmfao

[@luthermarinez7533]

my biggest issue with the No Russian in the newest campaign is that it hardly feels impactful in any way. like comparing it to the 2009 version, in the original mw2, that airport scene had MAJOR implications to the rest of the story. But in the newest one, the thing kind of happens and the next mission, you basically clean it all up and its kinda just over. like i was hoping for something more major to happen so i can have something to remember. just my opinion tbh

[@quakethedoombringer]

I feel like it would be more impactful if the US, which actually have citizens on the plane, would completely withdraw support for Urkzistan and actually assist Russia with invading the whole country. TF141 would be considered traitors for aiding and abetting a known terrorist group so they are on their own while Laswell has to face prison or works completely in the shadow

[@CyberSonic-V3.0]

Original No Russian: Slaughter hundreds of people and play right into the villain’s hand of causing WW3 which impacts the rest of the story of the second game and the third game. New No Russian: Just a callback to the originals with little effort into making it distinct and unique.

[@luthermarinez7533]

@quakethedoombringer that's actually a Hella good idea too 🙏🏿!!

[@luthermarinez7533]

@@CyberSonic-V3.0 EXACTLY!!!

[@SquashyButton]

Man, the way they killed Soap off was just plain disrespectful. He literally just gets into a little scuffle with Makarov and was unceremoniously shot in the head. Compare that to his death in the OG MW3 where he saves Yuri from an explosion, we desperately carry him to safety while being shot at, and have an emotional moment with Price before he eventually dies. His death in this game is so hollow and unemotional, it reeks of them doing it purely for shock value. I swear, they probably got to that point in the story and realized literally NOTHING had happened, and figured they could just cheaply kill off a main character to try and justify this campaign even existing. Also, instead of Price just killing Sheperd in a cutscene, I think it would have been a WAY better twist to reveal that Sheperd was working with Makarov the whole time, setting them both up as the main villains of the next game. Or, at the very least, let us actually get to kill Sheperd, instead of just watching Price do it. After a bit more thought, what makes Soap’s death so, SO much worse, is that he EASILY could have killed Makarov. As Makarov is about to shoot Price, Soap quite literally has the jump on him. But, instead of stabbing him in the neck, or in the head, or slitting his throat, he stabs Makarov in the shoulder? What kind of garbage ass writing is that? Also, I can’t tell for sure, but it looks like Soap still had his sidearm, so he could have just shot Makarov as well. Soap is a highly trained special forces soldier, but he went for the least efficient attack when he had the jump on an enemy.

[@Klongu_Da_Bongu]

Price reacting to his death to. In the original he starts flailing his arms at Soap's chest while screaming "No, no, no!", almost like he's trying to bring him back. Nikolai has to pull him back into the real world. Here he's just like: "Call it in" and that's that.

[@SquashyButton]

⁠@@Klongu_Da_BonguThat’s probably my biggest issue. None of them even react to Soap’s death.

[@RochRich.]

Tbf that's how Gaz died in CoD4. It shows you how easy it is to snuff out a life in war like you've been doing to dozens of men in the campaign, or something like that idk. The sudden unceremonious nature makes it blunt.

[@fxfranktga8775]

​@RochRich. Even Gaz had a better death in 4. He was knocked down, dazzed, not knowing what was happening and still tried to put of a fight. Soap stabbed the dude, then let himself get man handled with no push back like a marvel film.

[@SquashyButton]

@@RochRich.Bruh, I fucking despise this stupid copium logic. It’s a main character death in a video game, not real life. The characters should say something, literally anything at all, when one of their comrades is killed by what is essentially their nemesis. Like, we didn’t need some overly dramatic scene, but just SOMETHING, other than the utter nothing burger we got. And even if they wanted to do a blunt, quick death, they executed it in the most piss poor way possible. And Gaz from CoD 4 is such a poor example. He was a glorified background character in that game, no one cared when he died because you knew nothing about him and he wasn’t fleshed out at all.

[@jonathanbullock961]

MW19- Terrorists with gas MW22- Terrorists with missles MW23- Terrorists with gas missles Yea definitely not written by ChatGPT Edit: Just finished replaying the OG Trilogy, makes me even more pissed off how bad they messed up MW23

[@leonrussell9607]

Mw19 was the gas 22 was the missiles

[@ITSSIRWAN86]

boring story

[@Hawtload]

MW24- Terrorists changing the climate with missile gas

[@modyphantom]

*progress*

[@bozoslayer5858]

What’s next? Missiles with gas terrorists??

[@sebforce1165]

I think the big difference with Ghosts and Vanguard is that their levels were actually, y'know, _levels?_ and not just their one damn Multiplayer map cut up into bite-sized chunks and haphazardly made into 'levels'

[@ThatDudeCalled]

This is what they did with unreal tourny 3. I thought no one would dare do it again

[@WolfGuardian495]

Ghosts is way better than this game.

[@humphreywolfe]

Ghosts is a MASTERPIECE compared to this...

[@TheRockwhisperer]

Didnt the people on the plane see Samara trying to disarm the terrorist with the gun, and defending them? And suddenly she turns up after being dragged away, dressed in a bombsuit... This also makes very little sense i think

[@DetectDEV_]

It still blows my mind how they fumbled such an amazing comeback that MW2019 started...

[@Jules279]

They got cocky, and thus it blew up in their face.

[@Monkeylighthouse]

To this day mw 2019 is still better than every game after it and a decent amount before it, I don’t understand how they completely fumbled everything after that amazing start

[@irrationalreasoning6368]

The writers for the 2019 reboot, who wrote for Naughty Dog on the Uncharted games and The Last of Us 1, left about mid-way through the development of MWII to join another studio. IW wound up rewriting the campaign into a more generic action shooter as a result.

[@cigareteking1882]

​@@Monkeylighthousethat is such a terrible option bro. 2018 was not that good. People just liked it cuz it was different, coldwar is WAY better. Cold war is an actual good game, and I've played every call of duty the year and day of release since cod4

[@IndianTelephone]

Look at the quality of animations, graphics that enphasize realism. So good. And all of it is negated due to absolute dog shit writing, mission design and gameplay choices. How can such a competent team of technical and artistic people be handled by zero imagination superiors.

[@BMur_]

They sit everyone in a room get their ideas than do the opposite. I swear this has to be how things work now .

[@chrisash9809]

The soap death actually made me mad. I love his character and to kill him off in such a way is stupid.

[@mehrzadgaming5631]

I'm so glad I grew up with "Makarov knows Yuri" than "where are the missiles"

[@L.P090]

I swear there’s adult films with better plots than the recent cods 😂

[@db_524]

True

[@VioIetteMolotov]

Wish we'd get something like og MW2 or Black Ops again.

[@FLOPPYBAKER]

When diversity, equity and inclusion is more important than story writing..

[@lilyluhtwizzy]

There was none of that. You're overlooking it.@@FLOPPYBAKER

[@swampdoc]

​@VioIetteMolotov it's best to leave og bo2 and mw2 alone, Activision will just ruin the identity those games had back then and turn it into a cash grab super operator simulator.

[@ALaughingWolf2188]

I still hate how Activision said all of that stuff about MWII having a two year life cycle and then halfway through they ditched it and gave us a $70 DLC with the shortest campaign COD’s ever had

[@ImWithMe]

Mw2 was the scam. Mw3 is actually fun af. The campaign is criminally undercooked, but it’s sacrifice was worth it to allocate resources toward the multiplayer and zombies

[@jacaredosvudu1638]

​@@ImWithMeoh amazing, a somewhat decent zombies and a downgraded copy n paste of the multiplayer? Surely a worthy sacrifice

[@ImWithMe]

@@jacaredosvudu1638 It’s obvious you have never played it. I promise, you are the one forcing yourself to hate mw3. It is a genuinely good game. I never bought mw2, but I understand how that game felt like a slap in the face. However, mw3 is actually worth it. The multiplayer is an upgrade in every way imaginable. It’s so fun and gives people what they’ve been asking for. The multiplayer doesn’t feel rushed in any way. Like yes, a lot of stuff is reused. But if this was a 50$ dlc for mw2, then no one would care. Instead it’s 70$ on its own. And the zombies is actually surprisingly fun as fuck too, with only more zombies stuff to be added each season. It does have a lot of content, and they will only be adding more over time. Maybe get it on sale, if it interests you, if not then don’t get it. You obviously have some sort of desire and love for cod or else you wouldn’t wanna be spending your time in the comments of a video like this. You can make a decision on your own I just think you should be skeptical of all the negativity.

[@JustSomebody2004]

@@jacaredosvudu1638I wouldn’t call Mp downgraded,It has been upgraded in a lot of ways(doesn’t mean it’s good btw)

[@lancethedecayedguardian2719]

​@@ImWithMeAs someone who has both, it's very obvious you didn't play MW2, like 90% of all the assets, weapons, and maps are jhst copy and pasted. It was supposed to be something akin to maybe a 20 dollar dlc, but no they shipped this out as a whopping 70 base price tag, more if you get deluxe editions. It's utterly disgraceful that they tried to petal this game off when they knew that fans were hyped for the next game because of how relatively well recieved MW2 was. I don't doubt you think it's good because MW2 was great and all this game did was give us an extremely overpriced dlc

[@MrFanservice]

I honestly can't even tell what's worse anymore. The game coming out and sUpRisInGlY being bad, or the CoD community at large being so ready to shovel shit into their mouths for yet another year

[@vingasoline5068]

I've barely heard anyone seriously excited for this game to be honest. First time since Vanguard where most of the community is against it. Too bad they'll probably eat up the next game next year

[@sethw.4966]

Campaign peaks with finding Riley, truly the best point in the whole campaign, a cheeky lil reference

[@Ardox17]

Soap's death was some bullshit... Makarov literally walked around the corner, and won a 2 v 1 against military trained hardened soldiers... by the way, what was ghost and kaz doing?? That whole confrotation with price, makarov and soap took a minute or two, plenty of time for them to show up and do something

[@eeeeee8762]

He appeared just to kill soap, that was his purpose in that mission. It's hilarious if you watch the livestream VOD because it looks like Makarov comes in, kills soap, then gets hit by the train.

[@czaczaczar]

@@eeeeee8762 There were no gunshots on the left side when Soap & Price were attacked by Makarov meaning Ghost & Gaz were having a smoke break.

[@xxepic_gamer69xx36]

This makes BO4’s campaign look like a masterpiece

[@RaiderNightt]

Lmao

[@highoctanesynx7950]

Yes the "no campaign" of bo4 is 100% than this, i'm not being sarcastic

[@caged_rage4915]

😂😂😂 agree

[@arandomcrusader6707]

The fact that Bricky said that Makarov looks a lot like Ben Shapiro and the sister character for Makarov also looks like Ben Shapiro's sister is hilarious and honestly I can't unsee it now.

[@mr.pockets8523]

I googled Ben's Shapiro's sister and she kinda Hot.

[@lukecodz]

honestly ben shapiro probably looks more like makarov than makarov in this game

[@billdover3165]

How many times does soap have to die in this franchise? I swear to God he's being brought back by the dragon balls or some freaking deity.

[@KoalaTContent]

Shepherd's death was such a dramatic moment in MW2 1 and Soap's in MW3 1 was the saddest moment in the MW series, what the heck is going on with these games?

[@kenkensarmiento9442]

Developers more focus on graphics and multiplayer now they don't give an f about single player games now

[@Numbingbird]

And then Ghost wears his sick fucking mask to the funeral WTF?! lmfao. This generation of devs are clearly lost 🙄

[@googleisevil8958]

They wanted to be more "realistic" with this game... all while making the characters as dumb as possible.

[@I_dcd]

​@@googleisevil8958Even Soap and Price taking on an entire fucking army in classic mw2 feels more grounded in reality

[@Camscam]

"Give the writers a raise." What writers? All the good writers were on strike when this game was being made. Explains a lot...

[@zackince8803]

The writers was the AI that made the story

[@themeangene]

​@@zackince8803If it was AI it would be better. This is just modern day writing

[@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537]

>All the good writers were on strike That's a cope. We live in an age of universal deceit, this is how it is now. Frankfurt School fun and games with your lives.

[@FaultyLogic-my1mo]

The acting male’s sacrifice for playing this will not be forgotten

[@mrplayfulshade]

Not one person has said it so guess I will....FIX YA DAMN COMMENT. Autocorrect headass

[@sirshotty7689]

Who could’ve guessed that taking a co op dlc game mode and turning it into a campaign for a new game was a bad idea.

[@markponce6211]

"I don't believe in luck, I believe in planning." Dutch would be proud

[@charlesa6142]

Where is your goddamn faith? I.. have a pLaN!

[@Spike2276]

​@@charlesa6142 Damn it Arthur, just have some GODDAMNED FAITH!

[@sub-zero7061]

Also, in the first mission, even though it's dark you can see the blurry textures on the stone walls or the wooden planks. It's nothing compared to the rest of this abomination but it tells you something when even the most representative mission has those problems.

[@tsunderemerc2963]

I feel like Soap's death here was purely for the shock value, like "woah, see how brutal and unceremonious that was?" It was anticlimactic is what it was, Price doesn't even have a breakdown here, he just turns emo.

[@presofcamelot]

"Are you a virgin?" "No" *"You look like one"*

[@thepeskyone]

*vine boom*

[@Ghost7264]

Thank you for sacrificing your time to play this so we did not have to. I had heard the campaign was short and unsatisfying but wow. Just wow...

[@penderrin1637]

So this was originally planned as dlc, but had a completely different campaign. The original plan was for sledgehammer to have 16 months to make a dlc with a campaign focusing on a side story in Mexico, at some point in development Activision decided that the game and campaign had to be direct sequels, which forced sledgehammer to scrap what they already had and start fresh on an already rushed timeline. On top of this a lot of the context required for the story comes from the seasonal event cutscenes for mw2, which is really fucking stupid (and the plot of those is even dumber honestly, but that's not as bad because it's just used to setup things to do instead of an interesting plot)

[@15ด.ช.อัครวิทย์บุญชม]

So, it was originally DLC, but they decided to turn it into a $70 "game" (calling this a game is an insult to actually good games). They couldn't stop pumping out new CoDs every year, but can delay seasonal updates for a battle royal? Unbelievable, but seeing this is Activision we're talking here, I'm not surprised.

[@LuanNguyen-uk5gw]

Yeah, putting crucial part of story into season pass to force player playing season pass is really lowest of low move. Screw you Activision

[@penderrin1637]

@@LuanNguyen-uk5gw while it is exceedingly stupid, it's not exactly behind a paywall, it's behind a cutscene that plays on game launch (and therefore available on KZbin). That being said a lot more of the required context was in DMZ missions and the mw3 reveal event, meaning to get the whole story you needed to play a bunch of unrelated shit in a mode they are seemingly getting rid of. Honestly this whole game is a disgrace and it's depressing that Activision likely won't change due to it still being a success financially

[@LuanNguyen-uk5gw]

@@penderrin1637 I'm not a fan of CoD but man, I just want to see a CoD game with campaign that can watch from start to end without olaying unrelated shit and good story. Appearently it too hard for Activision to understand us now.

[@akend4426]

Also, for anyone wondering, Alex and Graves were confirmed to still be alive in the multiplayer lore for MW 2019 and MWII, respectively.

[@wolftamer5463]

Yeah I still never understood how Alex survived. Imo he should have stayed dead. But at least we never actually see Graves in the tank and it’s plausible even before the reveal he was just talking through a radio. Maybe I’m biased because he was one of my favorite characters from MW22 and I was glad he got brought back, but they did get too comfy with pulling the “not actually dead” card.

[@darrian6657]

Ghost’s story was great and its levels were interesting. For example the space missions, the helicopter to ground back to helicopter. The mission where u go under cover as enemy soldiers.